2013 what are you reading thread

didn't know where else to put this but omg i want this
http://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/2-original-winsor-mccay-production-drawings-fro-1-c-8c6359f08a

like i am restraining myself from bidding

Buy me one, please.

LW&C is classic. I only got about 9 volumes in but it's on my "i will finish this someday in the post-apocalypse" list

they are currently reprinting it in books twice as thick as the 28 volume dark horse edition

(i found the bit with the poisoner dragged a bit but the end picked up again)

Glyn Dillon's 'The Nao Of Brown' was lovely btw. as a read and as an object.

good god, just realized those DH editions came out ten years ago. i stopped buying before they completed the series. maybe after these reprints are done i'll try again

are the new reprints in the same small size as the original dh ones?

according to amazon:
new: Product Dimensions: 6 x 12.8 x 18 cm
old: Product Dimensions: 2.6 x 10.4 x 15 cm

They looked roughly the same size to me when I saw them at B&N (except, y'know, way thicker...I think they actually comprise 3 of the old volumes). The spines were pretty much destroyed, though, but I don't know if that was an actual book design issue or if it was from overuse by the B&N mangaheads.

those little big book ones are more or less unreadable

that suggests an inch wider and taller and thicker

i think the 28 DH volumes are going to be 12 volumes in the new series. amz says "720 pages" vs roughly 300 in the old ones.

28 * 300 / 720 = 11.66, so, yeah, about that.

nicest way to read LW&C is the in the 1980s First Comics printings - twice the size of those needlessly dinky Dark Horse eds

i have been reading grant morrison's cutely curated anthology of mad old batman stories, and the first volume of slott's superior spider-man (ingenious and funny)

The First edition doesn't finish the story iirc though? (As well as being less readily available than an in-print version)

The new ones are definitely bigger than the early c21 edition.

i think you're right abt the comics not finishing the story - they just LOOK better at the larger size, to my tired old eyes. i'm guessing that the subsequent paperback reprints use the same translations/lettering/'film' as the first comics? do these new editions have the old frank miller covers?

the small books put me off ever going back to this. not the best representation of the excellent artwork.

the first edition did not finish the story. the new ones use same miller covers.

dh website says the new "omnibus" ones are 5 x 7". the older ones 4 1/2 x 6 1/2". so, much the same size.

what was the excuse? didn't they say something like the artwork was originally published in the tiny size?

the original japanese books were small. i used to have one of them (or maybe a reprint) but i don't remember it being quite as small as the dark horse editions.

the dark horse books do reprint the books as they appeared in japan, in 28 volumes, unlike the first comics which broke them up.